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That's cool...it shows the incredible ambiguity in language and how you really need experience speaking and emphasizing in order to know a language, and intention of the speaker/writer...and how quickly a misunderstanding can happent.

My students went absolutely crazy when we did this lesson on the importance of proper inflection. Incidentally, I learned and taught this sentence as "I didn't say you stole my red bandana," leaving room for yet another ambiguity with the adjective "red."